They actually are made in europe and imported to the USA. They are utterly fantastic. I got to ride one 2 years ago, in a downpour you stay mostly dry and you have a covered place for your backpack behind you.
Power assist works great. I have it on my recumbent and it helps to maintain a average speed and even out the hills. BUT I'm dragging around an extra 8 kilos and downhill I regenerate power.
There are other problems. Pedaling 20 miles to work = working with really stinky people. Most offices and even shops do not have showers. Also changing from a motorcycle or car to a bike typically triples the commute time (except for places like new york where you sit in your car for 6 hours to go 1 block) as you cant maintain an average speed of 35 miles per hour on a bike unless you are an athlete. So instead of leaving for work 20 minutes before I need to be there, I need to leave 1.5 hours early so I can bike there for 1 hour and spend 1/2 hour showering and dressing for work.
THAT is the problem that biking to work faces. and looking at ALL my coworkers, maybe 3 of them can survive a 10 mile bike ride. the rest would be dead on the side of the road barely able to breathe after 3 miles. Silly part is, the 3 that can survive all are 40 somethings the 20 somethings are all horribly out of shape drinking their latte' with extra whipped cream.
The thing is, I dare the super-bowl to try and attack some of the clients I helped set up a super-bowl party for. One is a big time lawyer who will have 2 150" screens and 5 62" plasmas all blasting the game for his 100 guests. He's a lawyer for a firm that will eat the NFL for lunch and crap in their cheerios.
I honestly will gladly allow them to copyright the hell out of it IF they play in arenas that were not built by any public funds. Otherwise everything NFL must be Public domain.
one glaring problem. Combat is predictable. so predictable that you can fire a shot and watch the guy pop up and get killed as you start the combat sequence. bosses act the same, they typically ignore your team mates and zero in on you.
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You do know you can cut planet scanning time in 1/2 by scanning at the edge. press left on both sticks and the scanning speed is doubled. simply rotate and slowly move up or down depending on where you started.
the free DLC given though is quite useless and all fluff the same gear with a different look. the Blackhole gun is pretty darn crap compared to the grenade launcher. Big mechs are killed far easier lobbing grenades at them than the damned free black hole gun.
and I'm not sure the free mercenary guy is worth it. Garrus is a better fighter in most combats.
Pick it up, It's $6.00 at most gamestops in the used bin and is well worth it to play before you drop $70.00 on this one (Plus the cost of DLC as it start emerging....)
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Sniper rifles are not more powerful. Grab a midrange Sniper rifle in ME1 and equip with explosive rounds. a headshot on ANYONE will kill them instantly. One shot every 30 seconds was worth it.
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Or the annoying ship fuel. That was added simply to suck up the extra credits they give you in game.
Most dont. They want degree first and you almost never get to where you can show references if you dont get past the gatekeeper. SO my recommendation to many is to obfuscate. Have an ASS degree but 20 years experience? Put down BS degree if it's required, you can explain in the interview if asked that you put down what you have plus experience to get past the HR filters. Any competent interviewer will fully understand that. you need to get your references in their hands and they dont even want them until interviewing. I have a set of references that pretty much guarantees a hire, It's because I carefully cultivated those relationships and keep in contact regularly. I'll be going to 4 superbowl parties this weekend, spending half an hour at each to make an appearance and refresh that relationship. I know a lot of executives at different places because of my work and working with them... you HAVE to cultivate that kind of relationship because when you deliver a page of professional references full of president, vice president, and other executive names you get more attention.
I actually use 80% of my EE degree. It puts me way above the other programmers because I actually understand how the computer works and the other hardware works.
It's all how relative your career path and degree part are, Programming and electronics are hand in hand. Now my Chemistry degree, that's not so useful... Unless I become a programmer at a chemical plant.
If the CEO or HR director thinks that everyone at the place MUST have a BS degree then you cant get past that gatekeeper even if you have 30 years of experience in the field and may even designed most of the tools used in that field.
A degree is great for personal growth and enlightenment. Getting a PHD in History does not make you employable (actually most of the time it makes you LESS employable. Overqualified) But it did give you access to the subject you loved and several years of studying that subject.
On a side note: we do have a huge number of people going back to college, problem is we also have a huge number of dropouts right now as well. Most people cant cut it, My wife has noticed that a large number of these people really cant handle even the basic classes and end up dropping. A class of 35 will drop to 15 within 10 days.
A tablet? Too big to use one-handed or with thumbs, and no tilting screen.
I tilt my tablet all the time, why cant you tilt a tablet?
also I dare you to annotate an electrical diagram or blueprints on your phone with a client. OR better yet, take notes at a meeting. Everyone else is writing on their legal pad, I write on my tablet. I dont have to go to my desk afterwards and then get those notes into my system. In fact I can email my notes to others instantly with my 3G connection in the WWAN card or use the WLAN connection.
Stop trying to use a tablet as a PC and a lot opens up.
Probably. The sad part is that their network is at best mediocre everywhere else. Detroit or Chicago I also get lots of dropouts and keep dropping back to the Edge network instead of 3G. Even voice calls have problems everywhere on an AT&T network.
How much you want to bed the law will be ignored when you are videotaping a cop beating someone. You were helping them by gathering evidence. Yet most people will be prosecuted for not letting the cop destroy your camera.
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You should upgrade.....
http://www.go-one.us/Pictures_of_go-one3.html
They actually are made in europe and imported to the USA. They are utterly fantastic. I got to ride one 2 years ago, in a downpour you stay mostly dry and you have a covered place for your backpack behind you.
Power assist works great. I have it on my recumbent and it helps to maintain a average speed and even out the hills. BUT I'm dragging around an extra 8 kilos and downhill I regenerate power.
There are other problems. Pedaling 20 miles to work = working with really stinky people. Most offices and even shops do not have showers. Also changing from a motorcycle or car to a bike typically triples the commute time (except for places like new york where you sit in your car for 6 hours to go 1 block) as you cant maintain an average speed of 35 miles per hour on a bike unless you are an athlete. So instead of leaving for work 20 minutes before I need to be there, I need to leave 1.5 hours early so I can bike there for 1 hour and spend 1/2 hour showering and dressing for work.
THAT is the problem that biking to work faces. and looking at ALL my coworkers, maybe 3 of them can survive a 10 mile bike ride. the rest would be dead on the side of the road barely able to breathe after 3 miles. Silly part is, the 3 that can survive all are 40 somethings the 20 somethings are all horribly out of shape drinking their latte' with extra whipped cream.
Use component out. Problem solved.
P.S. component 720p from a cable box is as good as a 1080p digital signal from that cable box..... Because all signals from it are utterly crappy.
The thing is, I dare the super-bowl to try and attack some of the clients I helped set up a super-bowl party for. One is a big time lawyer who will have 2 150" screens and 5 62" plasmas all blasting the game for his 100 guests. He's a lawyer for a firm that will eat the NFL for lunch and crap in their cheerios.
I honestly will gladly allow them to copyright the hell out of it IF they play in arenas that were not built by any public funds. Otherwise everything NFL must be Public domain.
one glaring problem. Combat is predictable. so predictable that you can fire a shot and watch the guy pop up and get killed as you start the combat sequence. bosses act the same, they typically ignore your team mates and zero in on you.
You do know you can cut planet scanning time in 1/2 by scanning at the edge. press left on both sticks and the scanning speed is doubled. simply rotate and slowly move up or down depending on where you started.
the free DLC given though is quite useless and all fluff the same gear with a different look. the Blackhole gun is pretty darn crap compared to the grenade launcher. Big mechs are killed far easier lobbing grenades at them than the damned free black hole gun.
and I'm not sure the free mercenary guy is worth it. Garrus is a better fighter in most combats.
Pick it up, It's $6.00 at most gamestops in the used bin and is well worth it to play before you drop $70.00 on this one (Plus the cost of DLC as it start emerging....)
Sniper rifles are not more powerful. Grab a midrange Sniper rifle in ME1 and equip with explosive rounds. a headshot on ANYONE will kill them instantly. One shot every 30 seconds was worth it.
Or the annoying ship fuel. That was added simply to suck up the extra credits they give you in game.
Most dont. They want degree first and you almost never get to where you can show references if you dont get past the gatekeeper. SO my recommendation to many is to obfuscate. Have an ASS degree but 20 years experience? Put down BS degree if it's required, you can explain in the interview if asked that you put down what you have plus experience to get past the HR filters. Any competent interviewer will fully understand that. you need to get your references in their hands and they dont even want them until interviewing. I have a set of references that pretty much guarantees a hire, It's because I carefully cultivated those relationships and keep in contact regularly. I'll be going to 4 superbowl parties this weekend, spending half an hour at each to make an appearance and refresh that relationship. I know a lot of executives at different places because of my work and working with them... you HAVE to cultivate that kind of relationship because when you deliver a page of professional references full of president, vice president, and other executive names you get more attention.
I actually use 80% of my EE degree. It puts me way above the other programmers because I actually understand how the computer works and the other hardware works.
It's all how relative your career path and degree part are, Programming and electronics are hand in hand. Now my Chemistry degree, that's not so useful... Unless I become a programmer at a chemical plant.
Yes and no.
If the CEO or HR director thinks that everyone at the place MUST have a BS degree then you cant get past that gatekeeper even if you have 30 years of experience in the field and may even designed most of the tools used in that field.
A degree is great for personal growth and enlightenment. Getting a PHD in History does not make you employable (actually most of the time it makes you LESS employable. Overqualified) But it did give you access to the subject you loved and several years of studying that subject.
On a side note: we do have a huge number of people going back to college, problem is we also have a huge number of dropouts right now as well. Most people cant cut it, My wife has noticed that a large number of these people really cant handle even the basic classes and end up dropping. A class of 35 will drop to 15 within 10 days.
Give me a 24"X24" one to play settlers of Catan on...
Problem is most "cardboard" games are getting nutty pricey. I have seen many new ones retailing for $100 or more.
A tablet? Too big to use one-handed or with thumbs, and no tilting screen.
I tilt my tablet all the time, why cant you tilt a tablet?
also I dare you to annotate an electrical diagram or blueprints on your phone with a client. OR better yet, take notes at a meeting. Everyone else is writing on their legal pad, I write on my tablet. I dont have to go to my desk afterwards and then get those notes into my system. In fact I can email my notes to others instantly with my 3G connection in the WWAN card or use the WLAN connection.
Stop trying to use a tablet as a PC and a lot opens up.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/FX100487701033.aspx
http://iheartonenote.com/
http://tech4teaching.org/wpblog/?p=602
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010789831033.aspx
as much detail as you can get, download the demo and mess with it. You'll learn more that way.
I want a puddle jumper. Slap that puppy over a Pontiac transport and have the coolest geek mobile evAR!
"I've yet to see an app that makes me think, "Oh- I have to have that, it is so much better than using a mouse/keyboard/trackpad/etc."
Microsoft One-Note. It's the killer tablet app.
Than and a program to let you pen markup PDF files. I have switched to only carrying a tablet into meetings because of those two apps. Plus I added a nice little microphone http://www.sourcingmap.com/mini-small-mic-microphone-for-laptop-line-chat-p-29294.html to the mic in plug and record the meeting audio as I sit there.
You cant look at a tablet as a pc or a laptop replacement. it's a limited use tool, leverage it's advantages and you really see what it's good at.
I tried one of those, I dont like how you cant see under it to read the text or see what icon you are trying to click on.
Will they make a clear one so I can see the screen through it?
Probably. The sad part is that their network is at best mediocre everywhere else. Detroit or Chicago I also get lots of dropouts and keep dropping back to the Edge network instead of 3G. Even voice calls have problems everywhere on an AT&T network.
They need to upgrade and expand EVERYWHERE.
For about $79.00 and a couple of hours of work you can make your Acer Aspire one touchscreen. I found a kit on ebay and made it fit.
it's not hard. give you touch which is actually really nice considering how crappy trackpad pointing is.
How much you want to bed the law will be ignored when you are videotaping a cop beating someone. You were helping them by gathering evidence. Yet most people will be prosecuted for not letting the cop destroy your camera.
http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/22/ubuntu-nvidia-and-two-monitors/
This worked for me. Unsure if it's the answer you were looking for